Product Description: Historia de Chile - Tomo I by Ramón Sotomayor Valdés. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1875 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Product Description: In the first biography in English of the great Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Collier traces his rise from very modest beginnings to become the first genuine “superstar” of twentieth-century Latin America...read more

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Product Description: Providing an overview of Chilean history for the general reader as well as the specialist, this text employs primary and secondary materials to analyze the nation's political, economic, and social evolution from independence to 2002...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Writing under the pseudonym "Jotabeche," José Joaquín Vallejo wrote forty-one short articles on Chilean life and society in the early republic. Known for their caustic wit, his writings were an instant success when they were first published in Chilean magazines and newspapers...read more

Product Description: Entre 1810 y 1817, los propios hijos de las españoles asentados en Chile constituyeron una Junta y proclamaron su Independencia de la Corona de España. Desde su primer gobernante independiente, Bernardo O'Higgins - hijo de uno de los úlyimos gobernadores españoles - hasta la actualidad, se han sucedido en Chile más de treinta Presidencias democráticas, salpicadas por el general Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) ha sido el más largo y traumático...read more

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Traces the history of the tango, describes dancers and musicians associated with the dance, and looks at the tango in art and movies

Gathers information about the geography, climate, agriculture, industry, economy, people, history, politics, languages, literature, music, art, theater, and science of Latin America